Studies show that eating dark chocolate is actually good for you. As long as you eat it in moderate amounts and don't drink milk with it.
~~ "Our findings indicate that milk may interfere with the absorption of antioxidants from chocolate..."
They also say that eating dark chocolate will help lower blood pressure and it carries antioxidants that help heal certain ailments.
~~ "Eating a small, 1.6 ounce bar of dark chocolate every day is [very] good for you".
The higher the cacao content in a dark chocolate bar, the better it is for you.

Now, I don't know about you, but since chocolate is my favorite food, and I absolutely love dark chocolate, this is VERY good news to me. Dark chocolate has now become my new favorite kind of chocolate. If I can eat chocolate and become more healthy, then I'm all for it. After finding this out, I went to the store, went down the candy isle and found where the different kinds of dark chocolate were. I started looking at the percentage of cacao found in the different bars until I found this one. Its new; its from Ghirardelli {which, by the way, is some of the best chocolate ever}. Its called Twilight Delight and it has 72% cacao in it. Since its dark chocolate, I must warn you. Although its very good, it is extremely rich. It gives you a serving size, like every other food/drink in existance, but even I can't eat a full serving. Its that rich. But for the small amount, its very satisfying.

These are the sites where I got the quotes from:
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/88/99702.htm
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/73/81921.htm

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